Since I’m quickly approaching 14,000 and have less than six gigs left… it appears I have added a few things. Much of it is a raid on my home collection, but I’ll break it down anyway. Of course, I have continued to add my Songlines CDs of new world music – adding the likes of Staff Benda Bilili from the Congo, Goran Bregovic from the Balkans and a new one from Khaled – the King of Rai music. Also picked up a U.K. magazine titled (appropriately) ‘Classic Rock Magazine’ which added twelve tunes of guitar pyrotechnics from Jeff Healy, Megadeath and Robin Trower.

Now to move from the compilations:
Kings Of Leon – “Only By the Night”
Assemblies of Dust – “Some Assembly Required” Great roots music (but don’t call them a jam band). Grace Potter guest-stars on one cut.
U.K. – The first album. Prog rock rules!
Stew – “Passing Strange” Original Broadway cast album for his Tony winning musical that is now a movie by Spike Lee.
The R.E.G. Project – “Harem” First record by my favorite Arabic DJs.
Hüsker Dü – “New Day Rising”
Joss Stone – “Mind, Body & Soul” The first album… before she had a stylist.
The Waterboys – “Dream Harder” Underrated record from Mike Scott.
Ofra Haza – “Kirya” The late Israeli superstar had one album released on Madonna’s Maverick label. This one. Need to check out older, more traditional stuff.
Gogol Bordello – “Gypsy Punks:Underdog World Strike” Forgot we had this. Chris picked it up at the Warped Tour.

Finally, I was looking at my woeful classical selections and I noticed something odd. I had very few symphonies. I have a lot of concertos and sonatas and modern classical works – but few of the major symphonies. So I added Hebert von Karajan conducting Mozart’s 40th and 41st symphony and Beethoven’s 9th; Leornard Bernstein conducting Schubert’s 8th and 9th symphony, as well as Milhaud’s “La Creation du Monde”; Andrew Davis conducting Holst’s The Planets; and Pierre Boulez conducting Debussy’s “La Mer” and “Nocturnes”. I also through in Eroica Trio’s “Baroque” album for some beautiful Chopin pieces. ‘Cause ya gots to have some class.

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